Principal Deployment & Production Reliability Architect

Principal Deployment & Production Reliability Architect
Foster City, California (Onsite)
Full-time
8–10 years

Position Overview
The Principal Deployment & Production Reliability Architect will lead the design and implementation of secure, reliable,
and automated deployment practices for production environments. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in Harness CI/CD and Continuous Verification, Kubernetes administration, progressive delivery strategies, GitOps, cloud infrastructure, and production reliability.

Key Responsibilities
 Design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD and deployment pipelines using Harness.
 Implement DevSecOps controls and integrate security gates into deployment pipelines.
 Administer Kubernetes environments, including production cluster management and deployment operations.
 Build and manage Harness Continuous Verification (CV) capabilities for deployment health validation.
 Implement Canary, Blue-Green, Progressive Delivery, and traffic-splitting strategies.
 Configure and manage Argo Rollouts, Analysis Templates and Runs, Experiments, automated promotion and rollback,
and deployment health validation.
 Develop and maintain Helm charts and Kubernetes resources, including Deployments, Services, Ingress, and CronJobs.
 Implement automated rollback mechanisms and deployment verification processes.
 Support Docker containerization and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
 Troubleshoot Linux systems and production deployment issues.
 Apply Kubernetes security practices, secrets management, RBAC, and access controls.
 Address container security, vulnerability management, cloud networking, load balancing, and ingress requirements.

Required Technical Skills
 DevSecOps controls and security integration within CI/CD pipelines.
 Harness CD, CI/CD pipeline development, and Harness Continuous Verification (CV).
 Kubernetes administration, deployment, and production cluster management.
 Canary, Blue-Green, Progressive Delivery, and traffic-splitting strategies.
 Argo Rollouts, including Rollouts, Analysis Templates and Runs, Experiments, automated promotion/rollback, and deployment health validation.
 Helm Charts and Kubernetes objects: Deployments, Services, Ingress, and CronJobs.
 Automated rollback and deployment verification.

Principal Deployment & Production Reliability Architect
 Docker containerization and GitOps-based deployment processes.
 Linux administration and troubleshooting.
 AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes security.
 Secrets Management, RBAC, and Access Controls.
 Container security and vulnerability management.
 Security gates, cloud networking, load balancing, and ingress.

Preferred Skills
 AWS/EKS platform experience.
 Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
 Service mesh technologies such as Istio and Linkerd.
 Prometheus and Grafana integration for deployment validation.
 Compliance and security governance frameworks.

Experience and Work Arrangement
 8–10 years of relevant professional experience.
 One onsite position based in Foster City, California.

Key Areas of Expertise
 Harness CI/CD and Continuous Verification
 Kubernetes and EKS production operations
 Argo Rollouts and progressive delivery
 DevSecOps and container security
 GitOps, Helm, and Docker
 AWS infrastructure and production reliability
 Automated deployment validation and rollback